Jade BENHAM (Mildura) (19:06): (1671) My adjournment matter this evening is for the Minister for Multicultural and Multifaith Victoria in the other place. The action I seek is for her to review the funding for food relief in the regions, particularly to ethnic community councils and particularly in Sunraysia. The Sunraysia Mallee Ethnic Communities Council does a huge power of work. They punch well above their weight. They are the hub of food relief, really, in Mildura, and they are seeing people now that they have never seen before. The neighbourhood houses are too, who are not funded to provide food relief but do that because again they punch well above their weight. They also rely on the Sunraysia Mallee Ethnic Communities Council, affectionately known as SMECC. They have a social supermarket. They rely a lot on donations from local supermarkets. They also rely on a certain amount of Department of Premier and Cabinet funding every year. I have come to learn that the grant funding stream that SMECC applied for was cut by three-quarters this year. They were offered an allocation of one-quarter of what they had been getting previously and of what the maximum was, and they had 24 hours to accept that offer. So I am asking the minister now, in a cost-of-living crisis, in one of the largest multicultural communities in Victoria, to review this funding model for Sunraysia Mallee Ethnic Communities Council, because they are desperate to keep their doors open. There are families with young children and kids at school that cannot put food on the table; they simply cannot feed their kids. It is absolutely abhorrent that this government would cut their funding by so much in a time of absolute crisis in this state, coming into winter. Some families are having to choose between switching the heater on and giving their kids dinner. It is absolutely disgusting, and I am calling on the minister to review it urgently.